bring it in

a little of what's been our holiday season::

it all started with a star in the window...

and then the cheer started spreading about...

i love his kid-ness these days.  funny weird stuff he says and his sweet moves

so happy for the collective idea web that is the internet.
it's so enriching to take from others' beauty and put your own touch on it...

oh, mail.  i'll never stop loving you

and this precious little boy sitting position... our baby is becoming a toddler

oh! and our talkative fox loves a floor puzzle

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mini-holiday trip to eureka was... okay, it was exhausting.  but i'm glad we did it.

rare sighting of a napped out boy fox

the crescent hotel is.... old.

and there's a neat fire place

how to get a pic of your babe's in their christmas pjs

we took our own ambience

and came away with this fella

is this called vernacular?  or just beauty and thoughtful lovely chapel lines and trees.

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tomorrow we will 'take down the christmas'...
this year's holiday cheer decor that I pieced together has been my very favorite... ever.

i'm still being showered by the benevolent
Gods of thrifting-kharma...  (this hoodie!!)

he took two steps.  once.
about a week ago and has taken a break from 'walking.'
no complaints here.

marmie shawl in an artsy out-of-focus pretty moment

see:  sleep issues...  and a first fever... and a sixth tooth that's
not coming out without ado.
 i've imagined i will make a special pouch for this
 one tooth when it eventually falls out...
and i'll pull it out talk crap to it when i need someone
 to pick on, cause this little tooth has been pretty pesky folks!  pesky i tell ya!  

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jasper eats everything.  here he's trying a lil mulch while Lou
works to fill the bird feeder

a special gift from Papa for LF's big 3 (it was fun little party
that perhaps i'll make flash-back post about later this week) 

we are:  addicted to the new creperie in town.  addicted.  so
so so good!!!

ummm....  wow.  heart explosion

winter market bounty!

a budding muralist!

i couldn't take enough instagrams of this scene..

obsessed.

this year will go down in the books as the year that any bit
of a grinch heart that i ever had IS GONE.  all of it.

i love Christmas.  like, a lot.

and this!

and these! peanut butter cups homemade from the winter market,
wrapped in foil for drama and hidden in Lou's First Stocking!
note:  he didn't eat them!!!

           

and a thrown together advent that helped Loukas
grasp waiting to open the presents under the tree

and a mrs. claus get up

and the night before christmas

and BEing the stocking stuffer-er

and staging magic scenes for christmas morning striped
jammied baby boys who are getting to be more boy than baby 

and my surprise stocking from my gorgeous, and gracious
and amazing partner

but mostly this.  mostly this guy.  he is who made us a family and all his first
 are our firsts and this year was a big deal Christmas for him.
he got it.  he gets it and while there's not a big fuss since it's mostly just us and Papa on Christmas day,
it's still magical because we are doing it for him.  he "wuvs Christmas."

yeah:  cheer galore, dude.

and this fella... my mother in law gets me :)

and then just before the year's end... a first snow

and a first hot chocolate and a first time to
pass out on the floor for (another) rare nap occasion.

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we're starting this year with a new sleeping arrangement.
the crib will join loukas in the nursery and hopefully these
brothers will find peaceful rest in slumber together

so far, (kinda...) so good(-ish...)  

peace to all...